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Dodgers cut ties with reliever Belisario

Dodgers cut ties with reliever Belisario

8/16/13: Ronald Belisario strikes out Darin Ruf swinging for the final out of the eighth, stranding the bases loaded

By Ken Gurnick
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MLB.com |

LOS ANGELES -- The Dodgers did not tender a contract to Ronald Belisario by Monday night's deadline, making the right-handed reliever a free agent.

Belisario, 30, was 5-7 with a 3.97 ERA last season and made $1.45 million in his fourth season with the Dodgers, his time interrupted by a positive cocaine test that led to him missing the entire 2011 season.

The move leaves the Dodgers bullpen even thinner now that Brian Wilson and J.P. Howell are free agents.

The Dodgers tendered contracts to their other three arbitration eligibles -- Clayton Kershaw, Kenley Jansen and A.J. Ellis.

Ken Gurnick is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.